I was in Ted Ts'o's "Recovering from Linux Hard Drive Disasters" ( https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/training-program/full-training-program#T4) at LISA one year. Watching him recover data from a crashed fs is a thing of beauty.
You CAN do amazing things. I'd really recommend that class if you're going to LISA. --Matt On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:52 AM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > In practice, you need to be quite an expert to do anything other than -y, > and even then you will probably only do so if the disk has data on it that > you cannot recover any other way. > > for just about any production situation, you would want to build a new > system or restore from replica/backup instead of doing a manual fsck, but > that assumes that you _have_ the backup and can correctly recreate the > server, which should be the case, but sometimes isn't ;-p > > David Lang > > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Kevin Sandy wrote: > > We recently had some issues with one of our filers that wreaked all kinds >> of havoc on our systems. Many had to be rebooted to recover from read-only >> root filesystems, and quite a few of those needed a manual fsck. Which led >> me to wonder: >> >> When faced with filesystem inconsistencies at boot, does anyone do >> anything >> other than just 'fsck -y' on the device? I've never known anyone to do >> anything else, but I would have to assume some do, otherwise wouldn't it >> be >> automatic? >> >> -- kevin >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
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